Came across this text b/w lobbyist Gurpreet Vinning & Mayor Sim's staffer Trevor Ford.

Vinning wanted this kept quiet: Rogers wants to get more government contracts. Were they trying to sweeten the deal by giving money to things Sim cares about? I have questions.

vancouver.ca/files/cov/20...

Disability Politics and Theory is out as an audio book now!

I am so excited.

If you listen, please review.

Tkaronto (Toronto) folks: I am having a book launch on January 23 from 6-8 at William Doo Auditorium (Willcocks & Spadina).

It would be great if you came out for a conversation on disability, social justice, fighting for and building a better world.

I miss so many TO folks!

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Nogojiwanong (Peterborough): I will be having a book event on Jan 27 from 5-7 at the public library. It would be great if you came out for a conversation on disability, social justice, fighting for and building a better world.
#WritingCommunity
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Lovely view from my office this morning. #winter.

Medium-setting- on-the-heating-pad season

Perhaps use of initials should've been reconsidered for this position.

#Academicsky

Our team beat the monthly record in the Ringmaster escape room!

Amazingly low tide at Third Beach today.

Van Parks says it is temporarily evicting the court-protected encampment at Crab Park for cleaning. The promise to the residents association and plan to physically cut tents to make them uninhabitable are major cause for concern that this is a smokescreen for permanent eviction.

In court for review of Health Canada's denial of
DULF safe supply distro.

7 people die a day.

Denied because it would use the dark web to get drugs (ie through org crime). The tainted drug supply is through org crime. It makes no dif.

Safe Supply Saves Lives!

This is what Photoshop AI thinks a "taxidermy tool" is.

Help with the Alt text? A cow fetus if it was the handle of a gun.

Excited for my corporal copy of Gary Kinsman's "The Regulation of Desire." I read an advance copy and said "this is the book we need for this moment."

I highly recommend.
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York's trying to remove grievances for sexual/gender harassment and replace it solely with the Human Rights Office. When other trans students and I were being dead-named publicly at York, we went to the Human Rights Centre. It was institutional & ineffectual.

#academicsky

Some people are obsessed with gender-affirming surgery regret. I made these graphs to help show that obsession has nothing to do with concern for regret.

I wrote about the misrepresentation of trans regret here:
ajwithers.ca/2024/02/24/i...

#Trans